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          • SIOP Feature 1 Write content objectives clearly for students
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          • SIOP Feature 16 Provide frequent opportunities for interaction and discussion
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Reflecting on SIOP

Instructions:
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  • Person #1: Roll die to determine SIOP Component
  • Person #2: Read the Component and its features
  • Person #3: Connect lesson to one or more of the features
  • Switch roles and repeat
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I.        Lesson Preparation
  1. Write content objectives clearly for students:  SWBAT….
  2. Write language objectives clearly for students:  SWBAT….
  3. Choose content concepts appropriate for age and educational background level of students.
  4. Identify supplementary materials to use.
  5. Adapt content to all levels of student proficiency.
  6. Plan meaningful activities that integrate lesson concepts with language practice opportunities for reading, writing, listening, and/or speaking.​
II.      Building Background
  1. Explicitly link concepts to students’ backgrounds and experiences.
  2. Explicitly link past learning and new concepts.
  3. Emphasize key vocabulary for students.​

III.    Comprehensible input
  1. Use speech appropriate for students’ proficiency level.
  2. Explain academic tasks clearly.
  3. Use a variety of techniques to make content concepts clear (e.g. Modeling, visuals, hands-on activities, demonstrations, gestures, body language).​
IV.     Strategies
  1. Provide ample opportunities for students to use strategies (e.g. Problem solving, predicting, organizing, summarizing, categorizing, evaluating, self-monitoring).
  2. Use scaffolding techniques consistently throughout lesson.
  3. Use a variety of question types including those that promote higher-order thinking skills throughout.​

V.       Interaction
  1. Provide frequent opportunities for interaction and discussion between teacher/students and among students about lessons concepts, and encourage elaborated responses.
  2. Use group configurations that support language and content objectives of the lesson.
  3. Provide sufficient wait time for student responses consistently.
  4. Give ample opportunities for students to clarify key concepts in L1 as needed with aide, peer, or text.
VI.     Practice/Application
  1. Provide hands-on materials and/or manipulatives for students to practice using new content knowledge.
  2. Provide activities for students to apply content and language knowledge in the classroom.
  3. Provide activities that integrate all language skills (i.e. Reading, writing, listening, and speaking).

VII.   Lesson Delivery
  1. Support content objectives clearly.
  2. Support language objectives clearly.
  3. Engage students approximately 90-100% of the period.
  4. Pace the lesson appropriately to the students’ ability level.
VIII.   Review/Evaluation
  1. Give a comprehensive review of key vocabulary.
  2. Give a comprehensive review of key content concepts.
  3. Provide feedback to students regularly on their output (e.g. Language, content, work).
  4. Conduct assessments of student’s comprehension and learning throughout lesson and all lesson objectives

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